YORK COUNTY - Police are continuing to investigate the death of a York County woman after a preliminary autopsy report was inconclusive.

Robin Pickett, 49, a cafeteria worker at Grafton High School, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head Monday evening in her trailer in Harwood Mills Trailer Court, shown here.

Officials with the York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office spent all night investigating the death and will wait for a final autopsy report and the result of forensics investigations before they say whether she killed herself or was killed. *

Police arrest suspect in December robbery

NEWPORT NEWS - Police arrested a man on Monday they believe was responsible for an armed robbery and abduction in Newport News in December.

Omar Brown, 21, of Newport News, was arrested on charges of robbery, using a firearm and abduction. Police say Brown and another man held up a 38-year-old Newport News man at gunpoint, took his money, made him get in his own car with them and went to his apartment, which they robbed, then left in his car.

The second suspectedrobber has not been identified. *

Youth charged with trying to make a bomb

HAMPTON - A 12-year-old boy has been charged with attempting to manufacture an explosive device, three days after he called authorities to report being overcome by fumes emanating from chemicals that he mixed.

The boy was treated and released that night for exposure to the hydrochloric acid mixture that he produced, according to Loughran. She said he was charged Tuesday.*

Transit service expands bus routes, hours

WILLIAMSBURG - Williamsburg Area Transport will offer hourly service on the yellow line from the Williamsburg Transportation Center to the Colonial Williamsburg Visitors Center, Busch Gardens and Water Country USA for an all-day rate through Labor Day. The $1.50 all-day pass begins May 26.

Longer hours are offered on all WAT regular service routes during the summer. The buses operate Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Look for route changes along Route 60. And the Gray Line bus stops on McLaws Circle and John Jefferson Road will be discontinued.

Visit www.williamsburgtransport.com or call 220-5493 for more information. *

Artists invited to enter Bay Days art show

HAMPTON - Artists interested in entering an art show judged during Hampton Bay Days have until this Friday to apply.

The art will go on display from July 28 until Sept. 10 at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center on Victoria Boulevard and will be judged during the Bay Days festival the weekend of Sept. 8.

Applications must be received by Friday and each should include a $35 entrance fee and slides of the submitted works. The awards include a $1,000 prize for best in show.

For more information or to request an application, go to www.hamptonarts.net or call the arts center at 727-1490. *

Body discovered near Camp Peary identified

The body found Monday afternoon near the main gate of Camp Peary was that of a Newport News man, police said Tuesday.

A state trooper located the body of Jason Eric Allen, 32, of River Road, a little after 5 p.m. Monday, Virginia State Police Sgt. D.S. Carr said. A cause of death had not been determined as of late Tuesday afternoon.

Carr declined to say whether Allen's death was being considered suspicious. The case remains under investigation. *

A lab test on a skunk found Monday on Deer Trail between Zuni and Windsor came back positive late Tuesday afternoon, health department officials said. Last week and in April, three raccoons tested positive for rabies. On Saturday another rabies-infected raccoon was found. People should stay away from wild animals and make sure their pets are vaccinated, officials said.

The county had a total of five rabies cases last year.

Anyone who sees a suspicious animal should call the local health department at 357-9326, animal control at 365-6318 or the Smithfield police or county sheriff's office at 357-2151. *